This is when the story is all over the place. We just get bits of it from past and present and future and have to work out what happened and in what order for ourselves. Joseph Heller uses this extensively in the novel Catch-22. There was never an official time line and any made by someone else would have taken lots of work and still wouldn’t have been accurate. Heller reportedly tried to make a time line after he had written the book “to make sure everything was in order” and found he had made a significant contradiction at one point, … Continue reading Examples of Fragmented Narrative: Part I